Philippines: Politicizing Community Pantries
Residents collecting free food packets from a food bank called a "community pantry", run by volunteers, along a road in Quezon City in suburban Manila on 21 April, 2021. (AFP…
Residents collecting free food packets from a food bank called a "community pantry", run by volunteers, along a road in Quezon City in suburban Manila on 21 April, 2021. (AFP…
A protester wearing a face shield decorated with slogans against “red-tagging” takes part in a protest near the presidential palace in Manila. (AFP Photo) At the height of the alleged red…
A protester wearing a face shield decorated with slogans against “red-tagging” takes part in a protest near the presidential palace in Manila on 10 December, 2020. (AFP Photo) At the…
In this file photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (C) talks to House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano (R) and Senate President Vicente Sotto III (L), before Duterte's state of the nation…
This file photo shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivering his annual State of the Nation Address in congress in Manila on 27 July, 2020. (AFP Photo) The latest report on…
The President and the Communist. Jose Maria Sison (right) has been the masterful Houdini who had been twiddling former five Philippine presidents with his thumbs. But then came Digong Duterte,…
Members of the communists' armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), stand in formation as they mark the 46th anniversary of its founding in a remote village on the southern…
(Part 1 of the Series) The political opposition, the reds, and their supporters probably wonder until now why a certain Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte’s with his maverick and tough political persona rise from…
Residents remove mud and debris in front of their flood-damaged houses in Marikina City, suburban Manila on 13 November, 2020, a day after Typhoon Ulysses hit the capital area. (AFP…
Coast guard personnel evacuating residents from their flooded home in Cagayan province, north of Manila, days after Typhoon Vamco hit. (AFP Photo) The Philippines just recently experienced five typhoons in…